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Art / Technology / PeopleTue, 30 Jun 2015 14:22:39 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.7Text Adventure Timehttp://re-dock.org/portfolio/text-adventure-time
http://re-dock.org/portfolio/text-adventure-time#commentsWed, 06 May 2015 07:46:00 +0000http://re-dock.org/?post_type=portfolio&p=2149Three cities working together to create one EPIC text adventure game of the North. In 2015, young people from libraries in Wigan, Burnley and Hull will work collaboratively to create a text adventure game, which will released online for the world to enjoy.

The three cities will each send a representative to choose a genre, and then separately explore their area through a combination of balloons and map making to plot and create an alternative world. Through further workshops of narrative building, the stories will be fleshed out and will be collected into a saga.

Three summits with representatives from each city will come to intertwine the story – with the final output as a text adventure game, with supporting materials ie Artefakes. These artefakes supplement the stories, bringing to life the fictional alternative world the Young People create. Artefakes can include maps, tokens, songs, mottos, house banners, recipes and others, and will tour the libraries in a traveling exhibition.

Text Adventure Time is part of Networked Narrative, a two year collaborative project made up of four main partners: FACT, WLCT, Lancashire County Council and Hull Libraries together with smaller partners from each region. Re-Dock are excited to lead the online digital art commission – Text Adventure Time.

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http://re-dock.org/portfolio/thought-blobs#commentsThu, 18 Dec 2014 17:52:57 +0000http://re-dock.org/?post_type=portfolio&p=2099Young people created a trail of slimy thoughts around St.Helens Central Library and investigated them using a Thought Detector device. Here are some of the young people using the device to read the messaged stored in the thought blobs. Text descriptions of thoughts are written to slime covered RFID tags using a Raspberry Pi.

The detector features an Arduino housed in OOBB, the open source laser cut alternative to Mecchano.

This week we will be looking at objects and memories of the mining community from...

]]>This week we will be looking at objects and memories of the mining community from 1995-2005. How did peoples lifes change over these years and what are the memories that stand out to you? We will also be joined by creative technologist Adrian McEwen, who will be showing us how to bring objects to life so that they move or flash when they are being talked about on Twitter or Facebook.
]]>http://re-dock.org/event/30-years-of-looking-back-at-1995-2005-bringing-objects-to-life/feed0Relayer Cakehttp://re-dock.org/portfolio/relayer-cake
http://re-dock.org/portfolio/relayer-cake#commentsTue, 28 Oct 2014 11:34:19 +0000http://re-dock.org/?post_type=portfolio&p=2077Relayer Cake is a series of collaborative photoshop artwork relays, inspired by the exquisite corpse game – creating digital collages over 30 days – sharing the results and the process, racing towards a fixed deadline. The project embraces ideals of openness, participation, collaboration and civic engagement in the arts.

Investigating the theme of TIME 30 collaborators (10 artists chosen from Warrington Arts Festival, 10 community groups of Warrington and 10 gathered through online submission) join in this project, contributing a new layer to a collaborative artwork on a daily basis. Each artists has 24 hours to finish the artwork, and the finished image is added to an online flip book. The original Photoshop artwork is made available for the general public to explore, examine and potentially, remix themselves. Time and rhythm underpin this process, yet affords others the opportunity to examine and explore alternatives, contributing them back to the project – something that will be encouraged, emphasising the digital remix culture we operate in.

30 Years of.. is a new creative heritage project for the ex-mining community in St.Helens....

]]>30 Years of.. is a new creative heritage project for the ex-mining community in St.Helens.

This activity combines heritage and creative technology, it is suitable for people of all ages, from 8 to 98.

This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s policy of pit closures.
Re-Dock & MCQN ltd., are working with the ex-mining community of St.Helens to create an interactive exhibition of intelligent mining artefacts and we want YOU to help us create it.

This week creative technologist Adrian McEwen & artist Neil Winterburn will be showing us how to transform everyday objects into enchanted objects that respond to things happening on the internet. For example a poker that glows when people talk about St. Helens and mining on Facebook.

Once we have collated all of the objects we will be making an interactive exhibition that will transform this collection into enchanted objects that glow, vibrate, move or trigger sounds and videos, when people talk about them online.
Drop In, Come and tell us your mining memories, bring in objects and help us make the exhibition.

This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s...

]]>This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s policy of pit closures. Re-Dock & MCQN ltd., are working with the ex-mining community of St.Helens to create an interactive exhibition of intelligent mining artefacts and we want YOU to help us create it.

This week we will be working with creative technologist Adrian McEwen, to transform the objects that people have shared, into enchanted objects that come to life and tell us the memories that they spark.
We will be making an interactive exhibition that will transform this collection into enchanted objects that glow, vibrate, move or trigger sounds and videos, when people talk about them online.

Drop In, Come and tell us your mining memories, bring in objects and learn some new creative skills to help us make the exhibition. Suitable for all ages 8 – 98.

30 Years of.. is a new creative heritage project for the ex-mining community in St.Helens....

]]>30 Years of.. is a new creative heritage project for the ex-mining community in St.Helens.

Re-Dock and MCQN ltd are working with the ex-mining community in St.Helens to transform mining artefacts into an interactive exhibition of enchanted objects, telling the story of the past 30 years.

This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s policy of pit closures. Re-Dock & MCQN ltd., are working with the ex-mining community of St.Helens to create an interactive exhibition of intelligent mining artefacts and we want YOU to help us create it. Once we have collated all of the objects we will be making an interactive exhibition that will transform this collection into enchanted objects that glow, vibrate, move or trigger sounds and videos, when people talk about them online.

Drop In, Come and tell us your mining memories, bring in objects or help us make the exhibition

This year it is 30 years since the 1984 miners’ strike, which opposed the government’s policy of pit closures. Re-Dock and Internet of Things expert Adrian McEwen worked with the ex-mining community in St.Helens to create an interactive exhibition of enchanted objects, telling the story of the past 30 years.

The project was commissioned by St. Helens Arts Service as part of the second Cultural Hubs programme and is supported by public funding from the Arts Council of England.

Throughout a series of creative workshops we asked the men and women of the ex-mining community in St. Helens to share and curate a selection of objects to describe their experience of the past 30 Years. We used these objects as a focal point to discuss the strike, to evoke memories and to explore how things have changed over the years.

“Gary Conley introducing ‘Still The Enemy Within’”.

The project culminated in a screening of the film ‘Still The Enemy Within’ and an exhibition of enchanted artefacts. Cabinets of interactive artefacts were displayed at Chester Lane and Haydock library, with viewers able to investigate the objects using a specially designed sensor, that triggered audio descriptions of the memories that they sparked. The exhibition also featured smart objects that responded when they were being talked about on Twitter.

On Thursday morning a body is found in St Helens Library….Who is it? How did...

]]>On Thursday morning a body is found in St Helens Library….Who is it? How did it get there? But most importantly, who did it?

Can you solve this crime? Over the spring and summer, the St Helens Detective Club have been busy cooking up a murder mystery whodunnit set in St Helens Library. Exploring the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and weaving in life lived in St Helens, this stone cold crime will be serialised over three weeks starting on the 16th of October with new chapters published every Thursday (23rd, 30th October). Readers will get a week to search for some evidence and clues left behind by the perpetrator. But don’t worry if you can’t keep up, there will be a LIVE RADIO play on the 6th of November IN THE LIBRARY where you can hear some of our characters and put forward your theories before the big reveal!

So get your little grey cells together to solve the mystery of The Body in St Helens Library.

Use #StHelensWhodunnit to air your opinions, get some clues, and match wits with the killer.

Are you interested in lending your voice talents for the radio play? We will start recruiting some talented actors around September to take part in the LIVE RADIO PLAY event on the 6th of November. For enquires please contact hwayoung@re-dock.org